Dallas firm buys Nekoosa Coated Products

Local executives join Wingate Partners to buy plant

2:34 AM,
Oct. 5, 2012

Nekoosa Coated Products in Nekoosa Oct. 4, 2012. Nekoosa Coated Products has been sold to Dallas-based investment firm Wingate Partners, which, together with Nekoosa Coated Products President and CEO Paul Charapata, Vice President John Danio and other leaders on the Nekoosa team, partnered to acquire the business from Appleton-based Dunsirn Partners.

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NEKOOSA - Executives of a Nekoosa specialty papermaker hope a new partnership will allow them to expand the business and add jobs.

Nekoosa Coated Products President and CEO Paul Charapata, Vice President John Danio and other company leaders announced Wednesday that they had invested their own money and joined Dallas-based investment firm Wingate Partners to buy the Nekoosa plant from Appleton-based Dunsirn Partners.

"Over the past seven years, we've been looking at diversifying by building other strategic partnerships and finding new manufacturing capabilities," Charapata said ...